A5049537916- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Climate change and permafrost
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
Simon Fraser University
2023
Dartmouth College
2009-2022
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2018
Wright State University
2016
University of Michigan
2009-2014
Dartmouth Hospital
2013
Michigan State University
2010
Typha is an iconic wetland plant found worldwide. Hybridization and anthropogenic disturbances have resulted in large increases abundance ecosystems throughout North America at a cost to native floral faunal biodiversity. As demonstrated by three regional case studies, capable of rapidly colonizing habitats forming monodominant vegetation stands due traits such as robust size, rapid growth rate, rhizomatic expansion. Increased nutrient inputs into wetlands altered hydrologic regimes are...
The knowledge systems and practices of Indigenous Peoples local communities play critical roles in safeguarding the biological cultural diversity our planet. Globalization, government policies, capitalism, colonialism, other rapid social-ecological changes threaten relationships between their environments, thereby challenging continuity dynamism Local Knowledge (ILK). In this article, we contribute to “World Scientists' Warning Humanity,” issued by Alliance World Scientists, exploring...
A symposium on Complexity in Human–Nature Interactions across Landscapes held at the 2009 meeting of U.S. Regional Association International for Landscape Ecology Snowbird, Utah. William J. McConnell, James D.A. Millington, Nicholas Reo, Marina Alberti, Heidi Asbjornsen, Lawrence A. Baker, Brozović, Laurie E. Drinkwater, Scott Drzyzga, José Fragoso, Daniel S. Holland, Claire Jantz, Timothy Kohler, Herbert D. G. Maschner, Michael Monticino, Guillermo Podestá, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Jr.,...
Regional, multi-actor environmental collaborations bring together diverse parties to achieve protection and stewardship outcomes. Involving a range of participants helps involve alternative forms knowledge, expertise, perspectives; it may also present greater challenges in reaching agreements, particularly when both Indigenous non-Indigenous are involved. The authors conduct cross-case study 39 regional partnerships involving nations from the Great Lakes basin North America with aim...
Researchers working with Indigenous nations often recognize the need to build respectful relationships nation representatives, but too assume that everyone has same understandings of respect and accountability. Relational accountability, an ethical guideline for conducting research partners, references kincentric beliefs among many Peoples. It implies researchers are responsible nurturing honorable community collaborators accountable entirety in which they work, potentially including...
Abstract Introduced species that spread and become invasive are recognised as a major threat to global biological diversity, ecosystem resilience economic stability. Eradication is often default conservation management strategy even when it may not be feasible for variety of reasons. Assessment the substantive socioeconomic ecological impacts alien (IAS), both negative positive, increasingly viewed an important step in management. We argue one solution IAS align models with Indigenous...
Waller, D. M., and N. J. Reo. 2018. First stewards: ecological outcomes of forest wildlife stewardship by indigenous peoples Wisconsin, USA. Ecology Society 23(1):45. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09865-230145
The ecological impacts of invasive plants increase dramatically with time since invasion. Targeting young populations for treatment is therefore an economically and ecologically effective management approach, especially when linked to post-treatment monitoring evaluate the efficacy management. However, collecting detailed field-based data prohibitively expensive, typically resulting in inadequate documentation effects plant Alternative approaches, such as remote detection unmanned aerial...
Resource managers are increasingly engaging with tribes and first nations looking for methods to incorporate their perspectives, priorities traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) into public land resource management. Many initiatives that engage TEK holders only seek tribal input, such as biological data, is most easily integrated existing management structures. Increasing attention on belief systems would provide a more holistic understanding could benefit TEK-related initiatives. Such...
Invasive Species, Indigenous Stewards, and Vulnerability Discourse Nicholas J. Reo (bio), Kyle Whyte Darren Ranco Jodi Brandt Emily Blackmer Braden Elliott (bio) North American nations are confronting various forms of rapid environmental change, ranging from climate-induced sea-level rise on the Gulf Coast, to melting permafrost shifting sea ice patterns in Arctic, invasive species–induced trophic cascades Great Lakes.1 These changes all evidence used justify calling our current geologic era...
Abstract Declines in global biodiversity due to land conversion and habitat loss are driving a “Sixth Mass Extinction” many countries currently fall short of meeting even nominal protection targets mitigate this crisis. Here, we quantify the potential contribution Indigenous lands conservation using case studies Australia, Brazil Canada. each country slightly more species rich than existing protected areas and, Canada, support threatened or random sites. These results indicate that similar...
Fire history is an important aspect of the natural disturbance pattern many types forested ecosystems. Nonetheless, forests and corresponding management plans lack quantitative information on fire interval, frequency, seasonality. This project examined at Price Mountain, Virginia, using scar samples tree-ring analyses from live tree chronologies. Additionally, this investigated scarring potential two little-studied species, black gum (Nyssa sylvatica) sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum), as well...
Relatively few people under the age of 60 are fluent speakers various Indigenous languages Alaska. Concurrently, climate change is severely impacting Alaska and its residents, where environments changing far more rapidly than majority planet. These factors complicate land-language nexus may have implications for sustainability in other parts Arctic. In this collaborative, community-centered project, we spoke with Iñupiaq Yupik language to learn how rapid environmental affects heritage...
This paper illustrates a landscape ecology approach for land trusts undertaking conservation at the watershed scale. A plan was created Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy (GTRLC) in headwaters of Michigan's Manistee River Watershed (USA). Eight drivers were devised to identify Conservation Focus Areas (CFAs) highest ecological importance. The CFAs ranked based on importance, feasibility protection and size. Parcels ranked, totalling nearly 5000 ha, within three highest-ranking one key...